Queen getting a lot of praising as usual 
Why 'Hunger Games' star Jennifer Lawrence could rival Meryl Streep
she is extraordinary in general. For affirmation, just scroll through the accolades this actress from Louisville, Ky., has generated since Winter’s Bone, her star-making role from 2010. They are beyond rapturous.
Lawrence can flow — seemingly effortlessly — from fighting for family in the Ozarks in Winter’s Bone to mutating into a young Raven Darkholme/Mystique in two X-men movies to playing Katniss in The Hunger Games to portraying an emotional wreck in Silver Linings Playbook to being sloppily sexy-crazy in American Hustle. There is no limit to her chameleon-like abilities.
At 24, she handles herself with aplomb, throwing in self-deprecating jabs while never giving up ground. No wonder Canadian acting legend Donald Sutherland — who plays President Coriolanus Snow — has praised her as an “exquisite and brilliant actor
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quite obviously this is Lawrence’s film and she delivers exceptional work.
Her Katniss is wounded; so greatly wounded. She is exhausted, bruised and psychologically drained, yet still stands tall and fronts something so terribly daunting and costly. Lawrence offers a perfectly layered screen turn –
one of true complexity and compassion – and she deserves yet another Oscar nomination for her efforts.
http://www.filmoria.co.uk/2014/11/th...part-i-review/
Jennifer Lawrence reminds everyone why she is such a cherished icon at the moment, and she feels genuinely born to play this character. So many facets of Katniss’ personality are delivered with just a facial expression or and piece of body language, blending a very flawed three-dimensional character who is just plain likeable. She also shows the audience what the citizens of Panem are thinking in following her iconic status.
http://www.thatfilmguy.net/mockingjay-part-1-2014/
The real star of it all is Lawrence, though. Gives Lawrence the scope to invest Katniss with a haunted anguish to accompany her intense conviction.
She's magnetic from first frame to last, giving her most complete big-screen performance in a career already full of blisteringly charismatic turns
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About BO: And the fact that the Jennifer Lawrence films continually score bigger debut weekends and bigger domestic grosses than nearly any other superhero/male-centric action fantasy you can name should be noted more often, but that’s for another day
Things get off to a great start as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, who deserves as least as many year-end huzzahs for these films as she tends to get for her David O. Russell films)
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Lawrence is again tremendous as Katniss. She gives her character an emotional depth that you don’t expect in a franchise movie, conveying her vulnerability and doubt as well as well as her fiery determination and Barbarella-like sex appeal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...n-9852091.html
But Part 1 holds up, mostly, with Jennifer Lawrence
doing some proper heavy lifting
But J-Law tugs us in to Katniss’ fraught humanity,
invoking memories of Aliens’ harrowed Ripley
With measure and muscle, Lawrences Jennifer and Francis nail the job of selling the long, twisting road towards revolution.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 Review | TotalFilm.com
Katniss, played magnificently again by Jennifer Lawrence, is definitely the heroine and the smirking President Snow is definitely the villian.
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Once again Jennifer Lawrence captivates. Every flinch of fear, revulsion and guilt delivered with subtlety and projected on that familiar face – contemporary Artemis with bow, strength and grace
http://www.heyuguys.com/hunger-games...part-1-review/
Jennifer Lawrence is as earthy as ever
stand-out scene begins with a macabre ballad, The Hanging Tree (sung by the multi-talented Lawrence ) 
This is cinematic spectacle at its best; economical and idiosyncratic .
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/f...r-9851902.html
It is hard to imagine another young actress who could have played this series' central part as well as Ms. Lawrence, and the good news is that we don't have to. Lawrence is exemplary, and we believe her utterly, no matter how strange or soap-operatic the world around her is
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Lawrence takes Katniss to new levels, and manages to be both hysterically whiny and strong at the same time. It all makes sense judging on what she has been through and the fact she is still very much a young girl.
http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2014...part-1-review/
Katniss, played aptly by the unstoppable force that is Jennifer Lawrence, is as encapsulating as we’ve ever seen her in MOCKINGJAY – PART 1.
http://www.screenrelish.com/2014/11/...part-1-review/
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 opens where Catching Fire left off, and as soon as we see Jennifer Lawrence we are seeing Katniss Everdeen; you forget the personal drama she’s been embroiled in lately and are transported to undoubtedly one of the female film heroes of the decade
http://diymag.com/2014/11/11/film-re...art-1-20141119
On the bright side, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part I comes out blazing. How could it not? Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, suited up again as the heroic Katniss Everdeen, is a firebrand for the ages.
Making Katniss a star isn't much of a sweat, not with Lawrence in the role. At 24, she already ranks with the top talents of her generation. Beetee (Jeffrey Wright) builds Katniss three arrows for her bow: regular, incendiary and explosive. Lawrence can match that and raise the ante. She makes us feel every jab as Katniss reacts to Peeta's alleged betrayal and her own fury at the Capitol's terrorist tactics. "If we burn, you burn with us!" she shouts
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it's becoming increasingly certain none of these movies would work without Lawrence. The Oscar winner effortlessly carries the weight of 'Mockingjay,' functioning as its action hero and emotional throughline, and navigating both responsibilities with a complexity of character that massive tentpoles don't usually have.
And Lawrence rides the constantly swirling tides of fear, anger, hope and dismay with the skills she's displayed with equal effectiveness in her award winning movies. Lawrence is a gift to this franchise, and it's hard to imagine anyone else connecting with the material and audience in quite the way she has. And it's what makes this ride to the finale so satisfying.
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But it’s Lawrence who drives this thing, and she’s riveting. She’s the one who carries the pic’s emotional weight, expertly conveying Katniss’s maturity and growing resolve.
https://nowtoronto.com/movies/review...ingjay-part-1/
Katniss keeps the film human — here, even when elevated to an icon, she looks away embarrassed when the District 13 crowd applauds her latest ad
. Jennifer Lawrence can say more with a chagrined side-eye than most actresses could with a page-long speech
http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-11-...ingjay-review/
As ever, Lawrence is not only the best thing about “Mockingjay,” but also probably the one thing that makes an otherwise dreary, derivatively dystopian franchise worth watching. Even trudging through the post-industrial carnage and underground bunkers of the film’s blighted universe, she radiates remarkable humanity and light
Lawrence’s Katniss is the perfect foil for all four, her raw-boned beauty, strength and steady focus just as compelling, at their most unadorned, as when they’re tricked out for maximum stage presence
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Lawrence continues to develop Katniss and bring us on her journey with a believable and authentic nature. Katniss is very broken in this installment, weakened by the events that preceded her, and Lawrence executes it just about flawlessly.
http://www.awardscircuit.com/2014/11...8%85%E2%98%85/
"A part with this much sobbing, hand-wringing, and mournful gazing into the middle distance could be, in the wrong hands, a laugh riot, but Lawrence’s instincts are so smart that she never goes even a shade overboard. She’s a hell of an actress. Her adorable clumsiness in life suggests a reason she’s convincing onscreen: Spontaneity is all. She sings here, in a lovely, cracked voice with a touch of bluesiness, sounding as unaffected as when she speaks. If only the Hunger Games movies could tap her comic gifts, too."
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